October 4th, 2012 issue #1140
October 4th, 2012
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All that's Glitter's: Should a perv profit from Wahoo-wah?
It's the riff that's been pumping up UVA fans for years, energizing the Scott Stadium crowd pre-game when the Cavalier Marching Band plays its distinctive chords. And when it blares over the Scott Stadium loudspeakers after touchdowns, the crowd usually launches into a Stadium-wide chant: "U-V-A. Go Hoos, go." But hearing it makes at least one Cav fan very angry.
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Worst fire: Eleven-year-old boy Dustyn R. Fitzgerald dies in his second-floor bedroom in an 8am Sunday blaze September 30 in Dooms, according to a release. His parents an...
The Dish
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Cville Oriental: Asian supermarket opens on U.S. 29
For about 15 years, the Charlottesville Oriental Food Market, a little place located on Carlton Road next to the Cville Market, offered an assortment of Asian foods, produc... -
Iconic slices: Crozet Pizza comes to the Corner
Crozet Pizza is coming to the Corner on Elliewood Avenue sometime before Halloween. Now, that's pretty exciting news. The pizza is legendary, and students on the Corner are... -
Moo-vin' on: Kirt's Ice Cream makes it local
Kirt and Ivy Gray used to own the Maggie Moo's ice cream and treatery franchise in the Hollymead Town Center, but they got tired of the corporate ball and chain attached to... -
Southern revival: Sam's Kitchen returns... unchanged
Sam Jean is proof you can't keep a good restaurant man down. After opening in 1994 in the old Howard Johnson on The Corner (now the Red Roof Inn) and then moving to the old...
Essays
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E pluribus me: I harbor hidden hordes
I thought I was a rugged individualist. Turns out, I’m not even an individual. And any ruggedness I may possess doesn’t arise from me. While browsing around on science ...
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
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Reintroduced downtown farmhouse goes quickly this time
Charlottesville 6/27/12 Robert H. & Jane C. Miles to Mary W. L. Cowan, Trustee, 2033 Hessian Road, $1,500,000 Michael J. Gambill to Oxford Partners, LLC, 320 Mead...
Real Estate - On the Block
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On Secretarys Road: Homesteading possibilities with green amenities
Address: 2230 Secretarys RoadNeighborhood: Carter’s BridgeAsking: $250,000Assessment: $219,300Year Built: 2008Size: 1800 finished sq. ft.Land: 2.00 acresCurb Appeal: 7 ou...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
October 4 at 10am at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 2153 Richmond Road Debtor: JIMCO I LLC Original amount owing: unknown Bidder brings: 10 percent sale price Info: R. ...
Movie Reviews
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Gripping thriller: Why we're rooting for the guilty man
We tend to identify with the leading character of a film, even if he is a heartless bastard. Few films illustrate this curiosity better than Nicholas Jarecki's Arbitrage, a...
Music Features
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Blue Pavilion: Photos from last night's Jack White concert
The critically acclaimed musician, Jack White, often frowns on photography at his shows, but he allowed access for acclaimed Central Virginia photographer Milo Farineau for...
Contents
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Table of contents
COVERAll that's Glitter'sFew songs get a crowd hyped faster than "Rock and Roll Part 2," often called "The 'Hey' Song," but the crimes committed by the song's co-author hav...
News
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Un-locked: Local NFL ref returns to the field
Former Albemarle supervisor David Wyant says he got the email at 3:30am Thursday morning. He was going back to work. Wyant, an NFL referee for 22 years (there are only seve... -
Barnes Lumber: Mystery buyer revealed-- sorta
At a highly publicized foreclosure auction of J. Bruce Barnes Lumber in the heart of Crozet in June, the winning bid of $1.9 million bid came from an unidentified man who r... -
Battleground VA: Romney, Ryan coming to Expoland
With the Old Dominion one of the battleground states in the race for the White House, Republican challenger Mitt Romney has slated a Central Virginia campaign appearance wi... -
Featheridge reversal: Dragas backs out of Kluge mansion buy
Helen Dragas hasn't backed off the Board of Visitors, but she has backed out of purchasing an Albemarle estate that had been providing a home away from home in the bucolic ... -
Last chance? Hundreds attend Western 29 Bypass forum
Opponents of the Western 29 Bypass, including mega-selling author John Grisham, turned out in force September 27 to voice their dismay with the controversial road. T... -
McDonnell's desk: Governor gets clemency plea in Crozet killings
A little over a year after a man convicted in the 2003 slayings of a Crozet mother and son went public with his allegations that police put an innocent man in prison, the a... -
Sewn up: Donald Trump finally gets Albemarle House
The lawsuit is over, the no-trespassing signs are down, and The Donald just may want to keep the place for his family. A little over a year after he began snapping up the s... -
Targeting Dragas: 'Unpleasantness' not over yet, say legislators
Like a playwright struggling to finish a satisfying final act with characters who refuse to cooperate, State legislators, UVA faculty, and local citizens gathered at a "tow...
Facetime
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Backyard analogy: Prum celebrates 250... live and out loud
The author Deborah Prum has won awards– like the Hook's 2003 fiction contest. The musician Debby Prum is ready to have a hoedown. But Prum will bring other talents to...
CultureVulture
Black and White
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Brew crew
Attendees at the third annual Top of the Hops beer festival fill the nTelos Wireless Pavilion on Saturday, September 22, for an array of two-ounce samples of over 150 craft...
Cultural preview
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FunStuff: Charlottesville events October 4 and beyond
Non-conformist